Vice President of Engineering

Description :

You will also play an integral role in the evolution of the architecture and product roadmaps in the rapidly growing product suite.

Responsibilities :

- Contribute to next-generation platform architecture vision.

- Drive and own multiple technology initiatives for bringing Platform vision to life.

- Ensure platforms are designed for scale, availability, and performance using microservices architecture and as per API first design principles across geographies.

- Review and recommend improvements to operational processes and procedures utilizing automation.

- Responsible for key technical and product decisions.

- Implement best practices to ensure security and availability - devise processes and mechanisms to ensure the expected uptime of production applications.

- Maintain technical documentation, architecture references, change management, and reporting.

- Responsible for debugging critical technical issues inside a complex stack involving spring boot-microservices, containers, cloud services, etc.

- Work closely with product/project teams as well as clients and help provide relevant inputs from the engineering team.

- Partnering closely with product teams to scope out releases and deliver high-quality output.

- Coordinate and direct project execution, detailing plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities.

- Collaborating with peers to design and implement new operational capabilities as well as improving existing toolsets.

- From the technology perspective, mentoring other leads in the organization.

- Forge and instill goals and standards for engineering performance.

- Implementing best practice engineering methods.

- Mentoring and supporting the team by reinforcing practices such as Test Driven.

- Development, pair programming, refactoring, enhanced observability, and documentation.

- Present technical solutions, problem areas, and proof of concepts to the team or wider audience.

- Participate in cross-team coordinated development activities.

- Create and deliver on the long-term road map for engineering efficiency.

- Be the go-to person for non-functional requirements such as scalability, and performance.

- Measure and ensure engineering and product delivery goals are met, at an acceptable velocity and without trading off quality and performance.

- Ensure smooth communication channels within the team and with all stakeholders involved in the product development and delivery process.

- Experience adopting and deploying FOSS tools in production.

- Architecture and technical performance design (and reviews) for each engineer system.

- Essentially this role entails combining the best of a project manager AND a technical architect